Corey, Lombard Remembered
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| Lombard Photos Courtesy HBS Communications |
Last spring, the Harvard Business School community lost two of its most revered and distinguished emeriti professors. E. Raymond Corey (MBA ’46), creator of the first industrial marketing course taught at HBS and a member of the School’s faculty for 42 years, passed away in May in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He was 84. In June, George F.F. Lombard (MBA ’35), who served HBS for 41 years as a professor of organizational behavior and senior associate dean, died in Weston, Massachusetts. He was 93.
The Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Ray Corey taught in the School’s MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education programs; in the latter, he also took on several administrative roles. An early advocate of adding cases with ethical dimensions to the Marketing syllabus, Corey authored or coauthored more than 150 cases as well as eight books on marketing, distribution, and organizational strategy. He also headed the Division of Research for six years, overseeing an expansion of the School’s commitment to research and the launch of the HBS Press.
Corey, a 1941 graduate of Amherst College, served in the Navy during World War II. He began teaching at HBS in 1948 while working toward a Ph.D. (1950) in economics from Harvard. A recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from HBS in 1993, Corey retired from the faculty in 1990.
George Lombard, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, was part of a group of outstanding HBS professors who were pioneers in the fields of human relations and organizational behavior. He began his career in 1936 as an assistant dean and began teaching a course in industrial research in 1940; two years later, he was teaching the MBA course in human relations. In the ensuing years, Lombard authored and coauthored several books and other materials on human relations. In 1962, he largely put aside teaching duties when he was named associate dean for educational affairs, a key position from which he guided the development and operations of faculty, curriculum, and academic programs until his retirement in 1977.
Lombard, who earned his AB (1933) and Doctor of Commercial Science (DCS) (1942) degrees from Harvard, received the Distinguished Service Award from HBS in 1985.
